Mark Yoffe was born in Riga, Latvia in 1958. He was educated first at Latvian State University, Riga, in the Department of Slavic Philology. Dr. Yoffe emigrated to US in 1978.
BA, Slavic Studies, Queens College, New York. Worked as an Assistant Editor at Russica Publishers, New York.
MA, Slavic Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1986.
MLS, School of Information and Library Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1988.
Ph.D. Russian Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991.
Dr. Yoffe’s research interests in graduate school include: Old Russian literature, folklore and mythology, comparative religion, modern Russian literature, modern Russian culture and cultural anthropology, Soviet/Russian rock music, and countercultures.
From 1992-1994, Dr. Yoffe served as a consultant in Slavic literature at the European Division of the Library of Congress, where he created the first Soviet/Russian counterculture collection containing rare publications and audio materials.

In 1993, Dr. Yoffe conducted the first IREX-sponsored fieldwork with Moscow countercultural groups.
Since 1995, Dr. Yoffe has been engaged as the Slavic Librarian at the Gelman Library, George Washington University.
Since 1996, Dr. Yoffe has served as curator of International Counterculture Archive at George Washington University, where he created the archive, Advisory board, and secured university funding for outgoing collecting activity, cultural programs, exhibits.

Dr. Yoffe currently teaches courses at George Washington University on Slavic folklore and modern Russian film.
Dr. Yoffe publishes widely on topics of Russian culture, and lectures internationally on Russian rock music traditions.
He has conducted field work in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, UK.

Dr. Yoffe’s book publications include: Perun the God of Thunder, Peter Lang, New York, 2003. Rock Music and Nationalism, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, UK, Fall 2004.